A CORBA-based integration of distributed electronic healthcare records using the synapses approach

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 124-138

  Crimson, Jane ^a,b,c   Crimson, William ^a   Berry, Damon ^a   Stephens, Gaye ^a   Felton, Eoghan ^a   Kalra, Dipak ^a   Toussaint, Pieter ^a   Weier, Onno W ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Common object request broker architecture (corba); Distributed information systems; Electronic healthcare records (ehcr's); Health informatics; Open systems

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL EQUIPMENT; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PATIENT MONITORING;

DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC HEALTHCARE RECORD; MEDICAL INFORMATICS;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; MEDICAL RECORD; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0032148545     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4233.735777     Document Type: Article

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